17 Building and Extension Funds: subscriptions and accounts,

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1 Introduction RELATING TO BOARD OF MANAGERS 1 Managers Minutes, Minutes of Committees, Minutes of Court Contributors, Annual Reports, Rules and Regulations, and Charter, Managers Visiting Books, Printed memorials, reports, etc A Legal papers relating to Managers, Miscellaneous papers relating to Managers, FINANCIAL LEDGERS 9 Receipt Books, Receipt Books, miscellaneous, Disbursement books, Bound Statements of Account, Cash Ledgers, Cash Notebooks, miscellaneous, Account Books - Particular Funds, Student Ticket Registers, Building and Extension Funds: subscriptions and accounts, League of Subscribers, Collections and Subscriptions,

2 20 Investment Ledgers, Bank Ledgers, Treasurer s Abstracts of Accounts, Housekeeping Account Books, Voucher Books, Financial Statistics, Miscellaneous Financial Ledgers, SALARIES AND WAGES BOOKS 27 Salaries and Wages Books, general, Time and Pay Books: individual departments - medical, Time and Pay Books: individual departments - administration and domestic, Miscellaneous: staff pay, insurance, etc., FINANCIAL PAPERS 31 Abstracts of Accounts, etc. Management and Endowment Funds, A Savings Account Books, Trusts and Executries, A Bonds of Annuity, Deeds of Gift and Debentures, Properties, League of Subscribers: Papers, Pageant and Badge Days, Circular Letters, Printed Appeal Brochures etc, Miscellaneous financial papers,

3 SUPPLIES - DRUGS, HOUSEKEEPING, ETC 39 Records of the Pharmacy Department, 1899-c House Steward s Department, Miscellaneous books - inventories, requisitions, washing, etc ADMINISTRATION 41A Notices relating to admissions, Status - Relationship with University, etc Court of Contributors, Hospital Officials: Miscellaneous Volumes, Assistant Physicians Meetings, Board of Managers: papers, Finance committee: papers, Hospital Social Services Committee: papers, House Committee: papers, Law Committee: papers, Maintenance Committee: papers, Maternity Committee: papers, Medical Managers Committee: papers, Nursing Committee: papers, Radium: Radiological Committee: papers, Salaries and Wages Committee: papers, Simpson Memorial Maternity Committee: papers, Staff Fund Committee: papers, Miscellaneous Committee Papers, British Hospitals Association Papers,

4 61 Particular Wards and Specific Medical Problems, A Department of Surgical Neurology Papers, Annual Statistics of Patients, Registers of Beds and Patients, Bed and Patient Returns, Miscellaneous, Patient Statistics, Building Specifications, Reports, etc: General, Building Specifications, Reports, etc: Reconstruction of RIE, A Building Specifications, Reports, etc: Redevelopment of RIE and Medical School, B Building Specifications, Reports, etc: Lower Surgical Corridor Scheme, Plans, General, A Plans: Supplementary I, B Plans: Supplementary II, Plans: Reconstruction of RIE; Phase 1, Printed material: pamphlets, stationery, press cuttings, etc., Miscellaneous Administration Papers I, A Miscellaneous Administration Papers II, CORRESPONDENCE, CORRESPONDENCE FILES, LETTER BOOKS th century correspondence, th and 20 th century correspondence, Letter Books: Treasurer & Clerk / Secretary & Treasurer, Letter Books: Secretary, Letter Books: Medical Superintendent, Letter Books: Administration,

5 78 Correspondence of the Legal Adviser, [not allocated] 80 Administration Department: Files, 1960s-1970s 81 Administration Department: Files, 1970s-1980s 82 [not allocated] 83 Correspondence Day Books: Administration, SOCIETIES ATTACHED TO INFIRMARY 84 [not allocated] 85 [not allocated] 86 Women s Maintenance Council / RIE Volunteers, Sacred Song Union, Miscellaneous, n.d. SCHOOLS ATTACHED TO INFIRMARY (other than nursing) 89 Records of the School of Dietetics, 1929 c Massage / Physiotherapy, Radiography, n.d. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS etc. 92 Sisters Association, Division of Surgery, NURSING 94 Probationers applications, Record of training, Probationers time books, Registers of nurses trained in the RIE, Miscellaneous registers and student financial ledgers,

6 99 Monthly Returns, Theatre Nursing, Time and pay books, wages books, Lady Superintendent s papers, Night Superintendent s reports, , Nurses and Nursing School: rules, duties and training, General Nursing Council for Scotland, Correspondence, Centenary celebrations, Miscellaneous papers (including Nurses League), Printed pamphlets (not RIE), A Staff magazine The Pelican, Financial papers, Biographical 1 - Florence Nightingale, Biographical 2 - Lady Superintendents, RIE, A Papers of Senior Infection Control Nurse, c STUDENTS 113 Medical Student Papers, A Medical Student Registers, RESIDENCY 114 Rules subscribed by residents, Residency Mess, Old Residents Club: members and rules, Old Residents Club: correspondence and activities, A Miscellaneous papers received from RIE Doctors Residency,

7 117B Miscellaneous photos and objects received from RIE Doctors Residency, STAFF APPOINTMENTS AND ACTIVITIES (not nurses) 118 Medical and Administrative Staff Applications, Registers of Doctors, Appointments: miscellaneous, RIE Angling Club, PATIENTS / FINANCIAL 122 Murray Keith Fund, Stedman Cancer Fund, Miscellaneous Ledgers, PATIENTS 125 Miscellaneous Clinical Notes on Patients, General Register of Patients, Index to General Register of Patients, A Department of Cardiology Registers of Patients, WARD JOURNALS - SURGICAL 128 Prof. Syme, clinical and surgical wards Clinical Medical (Wards B, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 14) Dr Mackay, eyes wards 2/3, / Dr Mackay, out patients wards 2/ Eye Dept., out patients Orthoptic Department Edwin Bramwell, patient ledgers Mr Stirling, Orthopaedic ward

8 136 Secure Ward: journals and case reports ward Surgical ward Prof. Annandale wards 7, 8, Surgical wards 9/ Mr J R Cameron wards 4, 15, , Surgical wards 12, / Mr Hodson, Mr Wade wards V/VI, /16 142A Ward 5 Registers (Orthopaedic) Mr Paterson Brown, etc wards 18, Out patients ward registers Misc., Mr R L Stewart Surgical Out-Patient Department Surgical Out-Patient Department: fracture clinic WARD JOURNALS - MEDICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL 147A Medical ward Medical ward Medical ward A Medical ward B Medical ward 23/ Dietetics ward 25/ Dr Edwin Matthew, etc ward 26/27, / Gynaecological ward A Gynaecological ward

9 153 Gynaecological ward A Obstetrical Department Specimen Reports WARD JOURNALS - SPECIALIST 154 Ear, Nose and Throat wards Ear, Nose and Throat: index of diseases wards Ophthalmic ward 41/ Electric Diagnostic Theatre / Urology Medical Out-Patients Department A Cardiology 1940s 1950s 159 Miscellaneous Registers MISCELLANEOUS 160 Waiting Day Books, Day and Night Report Books, OPERATION BOOKS 162 Eye cases Surgical wards 5/ Surgical wards 7/ Mr Struthers, Mr Wood, Mr Adamson wards 9/10, / Professor Mercer wards 11/ Mr Paterson Brown, Mr J R Cameron wards 11/12, / Mr Jardine, Mr Millar wards 15/16, / Mr Hodson, Mr Wade wards 15/ Mr Chiene, Mr Pirie Watson, Mr Paterson wards 17/ Brown, Mr Cameron

10 170A ward Ear, Nose and Throat wards Orthopaedic, O.P.D Miscellaneous General Surgery ANAESTHETIC BOOKS 174 ward ward 5/ ward 7/ ward 9/ Mr Paterson Brown, Mr Cameron, ward 11/ Mr Stewart, Mr Farquharson 15/ Prof. Robertson ward 13/ Mr Paterson Brown, Mr Cameron ward 15/ Mr Paterson Brown, Mr Millar ward 17/ Gynaecology wards 34, , Ear, Nose and Throat wards 37/38, / Eyes wards 41, O.S.D. Theatre Skins Diagnostic Theatre S.O.P.D Miscellaneous General Surgery Registers of Deaths,

11 RELATED HOMES AND HOSPITALS AND SPECIALIST DEPARTMENTS CONNECTED WITH THEM 191 Radiology - Administration, Radiology - Patient Registers Beechmount Radium Institute, Convalescent House - Administration, Convalescent House - Patient Registers, George and Agnes Murray Home, th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS th Anniversary Celebrations, [not allocated] 199 Visitors Book, Papers relating to the sale of the Lauriston Place site, c DEPARTMENTS 201 Medical Records Department, Records of the Chaplaincy, 1897-c Records of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Records of the Department of Medical Physics, Assisted Conception Unit, 2001 PH Photographs, 1898-c2009

12 Introduction After an appeal for funds by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Infirmary or Hospital for the Sick Poor, opened on 6 th August It was the first voluntary hospital in Scotland. At the time of opening, the original building, the Little House at the head of Robertson s Close, contained 4 beds. A Royal Charter was granted in 1736 and in 1741 the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh moved to new premises in what is now Infirmary Street. The building was designed by William Adam and accommodated 288 beds. The Infirmary gradually expanded to fill the whole area between Drummond Street and Infirmary Street, the two main additions being the old Surgical Hospital, opened in 1832, and the new Surgical Hospital, opened in By the 1860s concern was being expressed at the condition of the original building and at the cramped and smoky nature of the whole site. In 1872 David Bryce was commissioned to draw up plans for a new hospital and in 1879 the Infirmary moved to its present site in Lauriston Place. Until the inception of the National Health Service in 1948, the administration of the Infirmary was carried out by the Managers. They were responsible to the Court of Contributors, which consisted of subscribers contributing 5 or more to the Infirmary. Among the Managers were representatives from the town council, the physicians and surgeons and the legal profession. In 1948 the Infirmary became part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Associated Hospitals group and was run by its own Board of Management. Further administrative changes occurred in 1974, 1994 and 1999, over which time the hospital was successively part of the South Lothian District and then a Unit of Lothian Health Board, a Trust in its own right, and it is currently part of Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust. Concern over the Lauriston site was first expressed in 1946, when it was felt that the current Royal Infirmary buildings were insufficient to meet the needs of the new National Health Service. Various plans were put forward, including demolition and rebuilding of the existing site, and construction of a brand new Royal Infirmary on a greenfield site, along with another new southern general hospital. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s a number of options were discussed, but the decision was eventually made to rebuild at Lauriston in a series of phases which aimed to minimise disruption to patients and staff. Work was repeatedly delayed however, due in part to financial issues and also to the fact that the Secretary of State for Scotland declared that the listed buildings could not be demolished, and it was not until 1981 that the first phase of rebuilding was completed. Again however this plan did not come to fruition, and in the late 1990s work was begun on a new Royal Infirmary at Little France which would also replace the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital and the City Hospital. The first patients moved in in January 2002 as the PMR closed, and the full move was completed in 2003.

13 For Background Reading: A. Logan Turner, Story of a Great Hospital: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Reprinted The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, , The Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, th Anniversary Brochure, Edinburgh, Edinburgh s Infirmary. Proceedings of a symposium held under the auspices of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine on 25 th October 1979 as part of the celebrations of the Infirmary s 250 th Anniversary. Edinburgh, 1979.